Eyes wide shut rotten tomatoes11/5/2023 It's like Kubrick made this movie despite living through the 60s and somehow learned nothing. I do not find it revealing to suggest couples struggle with their lecherous views for others, that this fact extends to women, and that even horndog men may struggle to act on these impulses against their conscience. If anything the patriarchal service of sexual fantasy and fulfillment within the halls of power, the coverups and perniciousness of modern society as seen with the likes of Roger Ailes and Harvey Weinstein has long left this in the dust with the far less pomp. If I wanted to see someone bite off more than they can chew in a seedy underworld I'd watch Midnight Cowboy. Granted I'm not a fan of Lynch but this is a David Lynch film as told by Stanley Kubrick through an antiquated moral lens.Īnd yeah everything is about sex, except sex which is about power there's a story to be told here, but that's just it this film tells no story except the vaguest of temptation for a naive nitwit who stumbles around and in the end gets no further than he started. I'd honestly enjoy watching Caligula more than having to suffer this film only to be vaguely entertained by its stylized "orgy" which is more ritual than orgy. The idea of rich people fucking high priced escorts who may or may not be doing drugs was somehow shocking or a revelation is ludicrous. I can vaguely understand the insecurities of marriage and fidelity hangups of straight lower upper class society, but even for its time this was out of touch with reality. Dude lost his edge and found himself it seems commenting on a time he was out of place in. which he handed off to Spielberg to finish (also lackluster) it's his last work since 1987 which was Full Metal Jacket. No one seems to consider he died finalizing the film or that along with A.I. I think everyone defends this film in honor of Kubrik's legacy rather than on its merits. The pacing is slow and boring I can't even make my way through a rewatch. but as an overall coherent commentary on anything it's at best a borderline dated and stilted prudish piece on WASPy fretting over sexuality and a borderline conspiratorial (Illuminati) commentary on social stratification. The direction is not terrible obviously, good camera work/cinematography, score, etc. This is the cinematic equivalence of sniffing your own farts in a closed space.
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